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Fri, 08/17/2007 - 01:38
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I am looking for some initial functionality before dumping e_commerce (it's been a dead end of troubles anyway and this project looks alive and well)

I have a site with an embedded Gallery, of which over 100,000 photos are available for purchase individually as various sized prints.

It will make sense to either have a product type for Glossy Prints and then 3x5, 8x10, etc.
Or several product types like 3x5 Glossy Print and 8x10 Glossy Print, etc.

I would like to be able to dynamically define any one of these with a picture number to identify and associate the picture being purchased with the product type chosen.

Using the embedded Gallery I am confident that I can append a url with the picture information, for example: cart/add/(3x5 glossy print)?picnumber=12345

of course the url before the ? will depend on uc_commerce methods which I am not yet familiar

Also, I will probably try to use the gallery image method instead of imagecache method.

If anyone has insight (or questions) please respond. I'll be back next week to catch up.

Thanks in advance

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Fri, 08/17/2007 - 06:29
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Re: Dynamic Products???

Why not just use product attributes?
Just like you choose size and color when buying cloths on the internet?

Erlend Strømsvik
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Fri, 08/17/2007 - 12:24
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Dynamic Products

I agree with quaoar. I think Attributes are the way to go. Especially since the attribute system in UberCart supports changing the model number. So you have a picture number / model number of 12345 and create an attribute called size which changes the model number to 12345-3x5 or 12345-8x10. The added benefit is that you can change the price via the attribute as well.

After rereading your post I think maybe the issue is that you are trying to use a third party gallery. Are you using the Drupal Gallery module, or something completely different?

Lyle (I think) has been working on supporting a "URL API" so you have the ability to add items to your cart from a url. I remember him saying that he has attributes working, but I could be making that up. In short, I think you can do what you want, but I am going to wait for Lyle to respond since he is the authority. He should be back in town on Mon. Aug. 20th.
Peace,
Andy

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Mon, 08/20/2007 - 14:19
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Re: Dynamic Products

Nope, that was Ryan who was working on that. So it looks like we're going to be waiting until Aug. 27th for any word on the Cart Links API.

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Fri, 07/11/2008 - 01:23
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Dynamic Links needed

I too, require this type of functionality. I'm using it for an existing third party catalog of thousands of products in multiple categories that I want to 'manage' with ubercart(for my invoicing and the shopping cart).
I show these products on my site, but they are being referenced from another site. They are all generally in the same 'format' so the only parts that change are things like the product name and price.

It would be great if I could dynamically change the product SKU, price and even elements on the page depending on the product chosen.

I'll have a look at that API thing, but I'm not sure it's going on the same track that I'm headed.

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